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V Senate Chamber Thronged as Chief Executive Is Assailed in First Charges of Kind in New York State r . "guzerj Cardidate Cor- THE COURT OF IMPEACHMENT rupted Sulzer, Governor ' Says the Assemble Lawyers' Brief i JUSTICE CULLEN PRESIDES Albany, N. Y. William Sulzer, the forty-second constitutional Governor of New York, was placed on trial before a High Court of Impeachment to answed an indictment returned by the Assembly charging "high crimes and misdemeanors" affecting his of ficial acts and personal integrity. He was not present when the forty eight Senators and nine of the ten elected and designated Justices of the Court of Appeals were sworn to try him fairly and impartially for the of fenses alleged against his honor and WILLIAM SULZER. the welfare of the State or when .his name was called t6 appear at the bar of his legally constituted peers. The proceedings brought out in un mistakable clearness the fact that Mr. Sulzer will question the right of the highest tribunal provided by law to try him; that he will resort to such technicalities ; as his legal advisers can devise to prevent his actual trial. The trend of the proceedings justi fied the conclusion that the technical evasions projected by his defense will be swept aside and that the court will proceed to determine his guilt or innocence by the processes estab lished by constitutional customs and practices. Following the solemn proceedings in the Senate came the spectacular arrest of James C. Garrison, warm partisan of the Governor,' bv order of the Assembly. Garrison happened to be in the Assembly chamber, dur ing the night session. He was promptly denied the privilege of "leav ing, and when a sufficient number of members had arrived to constitute a quorum was voted under arrest, and Leader Levy urged that he be sent to the penitentiary as in contempt of that auguct body. Opening and going forward in the most solemn, businesslike way, the High Court of Impeachment entered on the second chapter of the history of a struggle rich with human inter est, dramatic intensity, albeit charged with importance for the people of this State. It Is the first time in this State since 1874 that such a solemn and ex alted tribunal has been called upon to administer justice in the case of a public official accused of being derelict In duty.. In 1874, George G. Barnard, a Justice of the Supreme Court, was the respondent on charges of official misconduct growing out of disclos ures made in "The New York Times" in connection with the scandals of the Tweed regime. Justice Barnard was convicted, removed from office and disqualified from holding public office in the future. In one sense, the present case stands without prece dent in this State. In all its history no emergency has arisen before to call for the appearance of the Chief Executive before a High Court of Im peachment. Officials in Solemn Mood. The State Capitol, which has been the theatre of many dramatic and sensational periods in the history of the nation, ranging from the burning of witches to the expulsion of officials for grafting, began the writing of an additional chapter of - historic im portance at once humiliating and unique. State officials and political bosses trafficking and quarrelling over the CROWDS BATTLE FOR SEATS. Police Keep Sightseers from Disturb ing Sulzer's Judges Albany, N. Y. The solemnity of the proceedings in the Court of Impeach ment and the turmoil in the corridors outside were kept apart bj elaborate preparations intended to meet just such an emergency. While the black-robed Judges of the Court cf Appears and the stern-vis-aged Senate were perfecting the or ganization of the high tribunal with calm deliberation, a far different gath- . JUDGES OF THE COURT OF APPEALS. ' Elected Residence. EDGAR M. CULLEN, Chief Judge Brooklyn JOHN CLINTON GRAY Manhattan WILLIAM E. WERNER . Rochester WILLARD BARTLETT Brooklyn FREDERICK COLLIN I.. Elmira WILLIAM H. CUDDEBACK Buffalo JOHN W. HOGAN Syracuse Designated. FRANK H. HISCOCK Syracuse EMORY A. CHASE Catskill NATHAN L. MILLER Cortland . STATE SENATORS. DEMOCRATS. Occupation. O'Keefe Retired Thomas IT. Bernard M. Patten...... Thomas H. Cullen. . . . . . . Henry P. Velte... William J. Heffernan. . . . . William Brown Cars well. Daniel J. Carroll. Felix J. Sanner. .......... Herman H. Torborg Christopher D. Sullivan.. John C. Fitzgerald....... James D. McClelland.... James A. Foley John J. Boylan Robert F. Wagner Walter R. Herrick George W. Simpson Henry W. Pollock. James J. Frawley Anthony J. Griffin George A. Blauvelt John F. Healy John W.' McKnight Loren H. White Insurance and Furniture William D. Peckham Physician Clayton L. Wheeler Hardware . . .' John F. Murtagh...., Lawyer John Seeley ...Physician ............. John F. Malone Insurance Samuel J. Ramsperger Bookkeeper Gottfried H. Wende. John D. Stivers. .-. Henry M. Sage. George M. Whitney Seth G. Heacock James A. Emerson Herbert P. Coats Elon R. Brown. Ralph W. Thomas J. Henry Walters Charles J. Hewitt Thomas B. Wilson Thomas H. Bussey..... George F. Argetsinger. William L. Ormrod George F. Thompson... Frank N. Godfrey NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE "AND REPUBLICAN. Abraram J. Palmer. INDEPENDENT DEMOCRAT. James F. Duhamel. division of party spoils, contracts and all forms of graft, aspiring candi dates and bread and butter retainers gave place to actors engaged in ' a proceeding impressively solemn and of more serious import. Senators, ordinarily, indifferent to public opinion, walked meekly and with suhmissive mien before the tow ering figure of the black robed Chief Judge of the Appeals Court to give in lowered voice their oaths to afford William Sulzer a fair and impartial trial and to defend the honor and dig nity of the State. The atmosphere in tho Senate chamber during the sessions of the High Court which is to decide the fate of William Sulzer was in har mony with the trappings of the trans formed chamber. Scarlet draperies covere'd the wall behind the chair of the Chief Judge, directing for the first time in 290 years the delibera tions of two of the three coordinate branches of the State Government trying the head of the third for al leged crimes the commission of which carries with it expulsion from office. In the centre of the scarlet field blaz oned the coat of arms of the State done in old gold. The Scene as Court Opens. In front of the dignified Chief Judge with heavy lined features, high brow and white mustache, four rows of Senators and associate ering hovered near the entrances to the Senate Chamber. It was a disor ganized, ill-tempered crowd that jam med the corridors and tried by every trick and subterfuge to get by the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate and the pick of the Albany police depart ment. Loudest In their protests were swarms of Assemblymen, who gave vent to their disappointment when they found the doors of the high court were barred to them as to less im portant persons. Their surprise turned to anger when" they were "shooed" Residence. Oyster Bay Long Island City Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn , Brooklyn Brooklyn . Manhattan Manhattan . . . .-. . .Manhattan Manhattan Manhattan . . . . . . .Manhattan Manhattan Manhattan Manhattan Manhattan Manhattan Monsey ...New Rochelle Castleton ...Real Estate.. ...Marine Insurance. . . . Lawyer ...Retired ...Lawyer , , : . Manufacturer ...Real Estate , . . Lawyer , ..Real Estate ..Real Estate . . Lawyer . . Lawyer .Real Estate . . Lawyer . . Lawyer . . Lawyer , ..Lawyer . . Contractor . . Lawyer . i Lawyer .. . Manufacturer. . . . . Railroading Delanson Utica .Hancock . . .Elmira Wood hull . .Buffalo . . .Buffalo . . Buffalo ' Lawyer REPUBLICANS. .....Publisher , Land and Timber. Pharmacist Oil Producer. Banker Lawyer. Lawyer Lawyer Lawyer Coal and Lumber. Farmer Manufacturer Manufacturer Agriculturist Lawyer FarmerV . . . .Middletown $ .Menands $ .Mechanics villa Ilion j ! . . Warrensburg ' .Saranac Lake y . . . . Watertown r Hamilton Syracuse l Locke O Hall R Perry 3 Rochester Churchville O Middleport Olean w, Clergyman .Milton Patent Attorney. . . .Brooklyn Judges filled the chamber from north to south wall. The Judges sat di rectly in the centre of the first row, the Senators on either side and in the succeeding rows in the numerical or der of their districts. In the spaces between the dias of the Chief Judge and the first row of seats were grouped the rival coun sel, those for the State to the right, the legal defenders of William Sul zer to the left. There were also forty newspaper writers, the stenographers and a score of "friends" of Senate officials who could not be kept out. In the galleries twenty feet above the head of the Chief Judge, or "Pres ident," as he was addressed during the proceedings of the day, 200 men looked down upon the unusual scene. Sixty feet in front of the presiding Judge and twenty "from the floor the east gallery shoved solid rows of women, their costumes providing the only incongruous splashes of color to the subdued tone on the floor, though some of the noble Senators did ap pear in checks and reveal a pros perous collection of neck scarfs and diamonds not properly in place at so ceremonial a function as a trial in Impeachment of a high official. For the first time not a single wo man was permitted the "privileges" of the floor, though the demands had been almost irresistible. Suffragist scouts took note of the discrimination. away from the doors leading to the courtroom with as much dignity as a New York traffic policeman uses with a truck driver when he stops in the middle of a thoroughfare. Everybody looked alike to the guardians of the Court of Impeachment when creden tials as proof of his right to be in the courtroom were not forthcoming. The Senate lobbies had been shut off to all visitors, as had the Senate parlor. Temporary partitions had been erected in the corridors of the Capitol just beyond the Senate pre cincts, where alert custodians blocked WHAT THEY MAY PROVE Albany, N. Y. Asserting Governor Sulzer's misconduct as a candidate corrupts his conduct in public office, the brief of counsel for the Board of Managers for the Assembly who are prosecuting Sulzer, points out "wick edness in a candidate inherited by the omciai as an nereoitary taint Dy a child from the parent." The brief, which is exhaustive, was prepared by Edward Truman Brackett and indorsed by the associate counsel, Alton B. Parker, John B. Stanchfield, Isidor J. Kresel, Eugene Lamb Rich ards and Hiram C. Todd. Upon the conclusions in this brief are built the hopes of the prosecution in Its efforts to remove William Sulzer from the Governorship of this State. Candidate and Official. "He is subject to the direction of the law from the moment he is nom inated," says the brief in conclusion. "By this corrupt practices legislation the position of a candidate is legally indissolubly linked with that of the official. It is as much required that he shall make this statement of the amounts received by him and the ex penditures as it is required that he shall take the official oath as Gover nor when inaugurated. The one can not be separated from the other, and one is as positive a direction as is the other. "The making of a false statement of receipts and expenditures is just as much a violation cf duty and the com mission of a crime as is the violation of the official oath taken at induction into office! He who deliberately fills out a false statement in November is J not fitted, nor fit, for public office in January; he who commits -preny in H"H'li,IWtlli j) J-JP-ll .. ' -?. ' ' ;. -.1 ?lpiipilpiPi CHIEF JUSTICE CULLEN. October may not be intrusted with the responsibilities of high office three months later. "In .all this there is nothing cf effort to convict William Sulzer of lying. The world hates a liar, but it is not for lying that we ask the conviction of William Sulzer. ' He is charged with filing a fUse certificate of con tributions made to him. In doing so he violated the law and committed a crime." Impeachable Offense Alleged. Asserting that each of the eight ar ticles of impeachment except the last charges the Governor with crimes, the brief says: "The articles here charge impeachable offenses if proven as set out, they require a verdict of guilty from this court." It goes on to say the second article charges two crimes filing a report as required by the Penal Law that was false and with perjury in swear ing to its correctness. Through many typewritten pages the brief scathingly arraigns the Gov ernor in terms of forceful denuncia tion. all comers not provided with the badges giving the privilege of the Sen ate floor. To an extra guard of police had been assigned the task of main taining order and quiet there. Visitors were restricted to the limited space in the galleries, and no crowding was tolerated. About 1,000 men, women and chil dren were in line when the doors of the Senate gallery were thrown open, and about half of these were let in to the east gallery, the other having been reserved for members of the As sembly. It was a very quiet crowd. Hi mm Colon, C. Z Frequently the offi cials of the Republic of Panama tho minor ones have been ridi culed for the combination of stu pidity and pomposity that governs their conduct. Sometimes the rid icule is not deserved, but often it is. Some months ago an American resi dent of the city of Panama Imported a pair of riding boots from the states, and in his manifest submitted to the native customs authorities he so listed them, with the price, $9.50. The paper was returned to him with curt instruc tions to correct it. Not knowing how he had erred, he consulted the customs man and was told the boots must be listed as two separate articles, thus: "One riding boot, value $4.75; one rid ing boot, value $4.75." Mr. American complied silently, and received his boots. The Isthmus of Panama does not belong to the English, never did, and there are not many real Englishmen there. Yet the presence of a large number of British subjects the Ja maican negroes-has forced on the in habitants an English custom, that of vehicles taking the left side of tho road. Probably this is due to the fact that most of the cab drivers are Ja maicans. All the people of that island are intensely proud of being subjects of King George, and they are tenacious of such British customs as they know. Every cabby in Panama and Colon and their number is legion carries either a bicycle gong or an automobile horn with, which to Avarn other ve hicles and pedestrians of his approach, and on a busy day the noise is more unpleasant than that of the blasting in the Culebra cut. Speaking of the blasting reminds me that one of the very high up engineers on the canal job is exceedingly afraid of dynamite. He is also a strict dis ciplinarian and does not allow the workmen to loaf. Whenever one of the frequent "doby shots" or small blasts is to be fired, the nearest steam shovel emits a series of short, quick toots and the men scurry to cover. As soon as Mr. Engineer appears In the cut to see that the laborers are losing no time, the warning whistles are heard from steam shovels all along the way and he speedily returns to hi3 jf fice on the hill, leaving the unprodded workmen to resume their leisurely gait. Tourists flocked to the canal zone in such increasing numbers that the Panama Railway company which means the United States government decided to erect a new Washington hotel in Colon to supplant the old hos telry of that name. The architect de signed a handsome four-story struc ture of concrete and, to take full ad vantage of the cool breezes from the Atlantic, provided in his plans for a large roof garden and two dumb wait ers running up to It. The builders made the roof all right, and put in the dumb waiters, but when the hotel was near ing completion some one discovered there was no opening in the roof for the aforesaid dumb waiters. The nec essary changes would cost several kun- dred dollars, and the government of ficial who passed upon the expendi tures decided against making them as the hotel already had cost more than had been expected. Consequently those two dumb waiters run up to the ceiling of the fourth story and there stop, while the roof garden, having no service, remains unopened. Charlie Ying, a moon-faced celestial, had prospered on the isthmus and de cided not long ago to open an "Ameri can bar." He knew some English for he U3cd to work on the docks at Can ton, but when it came to the impor tant matter of wording his sign he thought best to consult another China man, who formerly lived in Chicago. This was the result of their joint ef fort: AMERICAN BAR WE SERVE WHISKY COCKIE3 AND GIN RICKTAILS. Close to the shore of Taboga island, so close, in fact, that they are con nected at low tide, lies a little, rocky, wooded islet known as Morro. For many, many years it was owned by a Spanish family, the present repre sentative of which I3 a widow of small means. On Morro is a flowing spring of excellent water, and one of the Pacific navigation companies de sired to acquire the Islet as a water ing station for its vessels. The widow was paid a fair price, and as a bonus was given life passes for herself and her children on the boats of the com pany. No sooner had the deal been consummated than the estimable lady pacied up her duds, stored her house hold belongings and with her family boarded one of the steamships for a trj.p. The journey was bo pleasant th,at they have been traveling contin ually on the company's ships ever .w.'-:-:. :f- .0. .. since, and the man who engineered the purchase of Morro Is wondering who got the best of it. Panama City's water supply is de rived from the Rio Grande reservoir, a little lake quite close to the canaL For obvious reasons bathing or wad ing in it is forbidden, and all around it are signs stating that fact. Recently the wife of a member of the canal commission was entertaining friends from the states, and in the course of their wanderings one day they came upon the reservoir. They were tired and dusty and the cool water looked so inviting that they all took off their shoes and stockings and went In wad ing. Unfortunately for them, one of the efficient zone policemen came upon them and arrested the whole party. They were taken before the nearest magistrate, and despite the pleading of the commissioner, who had been hastily called to the rescue, each on was compelled to pay a fine and listen to a sharp lecture on law-breaking and sanitation. In one respect at least, Panama Is like no other Latin-American city that I have seen. It has no distinctively residence quarter. "Now that we have seen where the people do business, let's see where they live," said I to my amateur guide. "You have been seeing that too," was the reply. "The people live over the shops in all parts of the city all the people, including the wealthy ones. The latter, however, also have beauti ful country places in the savanna lands a few miles away, and spend much of the year there." The asylum for the insane on Ancon Hill Is inhabited mainly by negroes from Jamaica and Barbados. These colored folk seem to go crazy in large numbers, and I asked a doctor there the reason. "Rum and religion" waa his terse reply. "They use a lot of both, and not much is needed to throw them off their mental balance." One of the Jamaicans in the asylum spends every evening sending vocal "wireless messages" to the governor One Pair of the Immense Gates of the Gatun Locks, Seen From the Floor of the Lock Chamber. of his home island, telling him how badly his compatriots are being treat ed on the isthmus. He utters the words of the messages with a sputter ing exploslveness that is curiously lika the sound of the wireless sender. Visits of congressional investigating committees are no novelty to the peo ple who are making the canal. Neither are they any pleasure. It is the gen eral belief down there that these are mere junkets, and it must be admitted that the visitors often show a colosscl Ignorance concerning the caaal. Col onel Sibert, engineer in charge of the Atlantic division, one day 6pent hours showing a congressman over the Ga tun locks and explaining it all to him. When the colonel concluded his little lecture the lawmaker clasped hia hands behind him, gazed about and re marked ponderously: "Well! So this is the-famous Culebra cut! I'm glad I've seen it and learned more about it." Poor Colonel Sibert collapsed. Nobody now lives where once stood the proud city of Old Panama that is, nobody except one old native wom an who has a little shack by the beach and sells liquid refreshment to the thirsty tourist. Her stock includes various -soft drinks, beer and, hang ing from the walls by strings, bottles of imported champagne. These last look as though they had. been hang ing there since the day when Mor gan and his buccaneers departed from the ruined city.
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